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Monday, January 23, 2017

Sneaking in a Snippet

Hey All! I thought I'd drop a little surprise on y'all this morning. Here's a first taste of Natural Causes...

Natural Causes

Chapter One

Dennis Haggarty gazed at the
clock on his office wall, ticking the seconds until he could go home to his
wife.He still couldn’t wrap his brain
around the words ‘his wife’ or the fact that she was leaving him so soon.In a few short hours, she’d be on a plane
headed east to visit a dear friend he’d never met.Then again, there were a lot of people in
Jillian’s life he’d never met.

He didn’t have anyone left for
her to meet.His sister was dead. His
mother and her husband would never speak to him again. As for his former
partner, Pat had already adopted the new Mrs. Haggarty like the daughter he
never had.

Dennis didn’t care enough about
anyone else to want them to meet his new bride.

The minute hand clicked to
quarter after the hour of four.If he
could make it another forty-five minutes without another shitstorm blowing
across his desk, he’d be home free.The
newest chief of police in the mountain town of Last Ditch, Colorado could avoid
the mundane calls that came in nightly.He wouldn’t be bothered until morning—not unless something drastic
happened or the phone rang while he was still at the office.

No sooner did Dennis finish his
thought than the black plastic bastard shrilled.He waited for Norma to answer, but then he
remembered his office manager had taken off early.Something about a bridal shower or a baby
shower or needing a new shower curtain.Frankly, he couldn’t remember.

Picking up the phone, he blurted
out the standard greeting.“Last Chance
P.D. This is Chief Haggarty.How can I
help you?”

Just a taste and it's not totally edited yet, but I hope you enjoyed it. I expect to have this ready to publish in a couple of months, depending on editor availability and my own gumption.

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Writer of suspense, speculative fiction (aka dystopian, futuristic, post-apocalyptic... pick one, they all work), and urban fantasy for the adult market. Minor conspiracy theorist and major hermit, armchair Jeopardy! champion and fount of useless knowledge, pessimistic optimist and hopeful romantic, B.E. Sanderson spends her time reading, writing, gardening, and generally enjoying life with her husband and their cat.